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Gardens By Design is Alaska’s premier garden design service. We offer a full line of garden design, installation, and maintenance services to enhance your landscape. Based in Homer, Alaska, award-winning Gardens By Design creates unique garden and landscape designs for both commercial and residential clients throughout southcentral Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula.

Use our horticultural knowledge and design skills to create beautiful outdoor spaces that reflect your dreams and desires while minimizing maintenance wherever possible. Our client-focused approach insures that your new gardens will bring you joy now and for years to come.

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The Perennial Plant Association organizes an intense international competition among professional garden designers and landscapers. In 2012 Brenda Adams, owner of Gardens By Design, won the highest award granted in this competition, the Honor Award, for her design and creation of the Serenity Garden at the new entrance to South Peninsula Hospital. Previously, she won the prestigious Merit Award in 2007 for a local residential garden and again in 2009 for a commercial project in Homer.

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Garden Design

Whether your project is large or small, we’ll create a unique design customized to your wishes, needs, and location. We can provide a master plan detailing the major elements of your landscape, select beautiful combinations with continuous blooms, define and design hardscape, help with garden art and furniture, and much more.

Installation Services

Our well-trained and experienced team can manage your garden installation from planning through completion. We co-ordinate with other specialty contractors where appropriate and welcome our clients to work with us if they desire. If you are a do-it-yourself person, we offer lots of consulting and coaching options.

Maintenance Services

For our design clients, we offer garden maintenance on a regularly scheduled basis or hourly as needed. Use our Special Spring Maintenance services to primp and prepare your gardens for the season and Winter Preparation to plant bulbs, cage woody plants to protect them from moose, and other seasonal chores.

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What Our Clients Say

After putting in the “bones” of our garden structure, with the beds laid out and paths in, I contacted Brenda to save me from total frustration with our gardens. We developed an immediate, comfortable working relationship that has continued for many years. The result was reworking and redesigning entire gardens, with new plants (suitable to our location) and adding rock gardens. These gardens are gorgeous and manageable. Another garden area was reworked and replanted using some of the old plants and many new ones. Each year we work together for next year’s plan and we have beautiful flowers and shrubs that span all seasons including wonderful winter interest as well. Brenda is a trusted, artistic, talented and knowledgeable garden designer.

Denice ClyneHomer, AK

Over the past decade Brenda has transformed areas around our home into wonderful gardens that continue to evolve, while giving us a source of great contentment. The ever changing bloom sequence never fails to amaze us. Brenda is an extraordinary teacher who has been generous with her vast knowledge in the creation and maturation of our gardens, which continue to be an integral part of our lives.

Gari and Len SiskAnchorage & Homer, AK

Brenda has such a good eye for color combinations of plants, for variety of plants to see that something is always blooming from early spring to late fall, for different foliage combinations. My "waterfall" of draping plants alongside my stone steps in the spring is spectacular. She always has a good attitude, is fun to be around and has excellence as her standard. Thank you, Brenda.

Marguerite FeltonHomer, AK

From design to installation, creating my garden with Brenda couldn't have been a more delightful experience.She carefully listened to my vision, provided a creative and detailed design, and with her technical expertise and the help of her skilled crew, she brought my garden to life.

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Gardens By Design

Gardens By Design is Alaska’s premier garden design service. We offer a full line of garden design, installation, and maintenance services to enhance your landscape. Based in Homer, Alaska, award-winning Gardens By Design creates unique garden and landscape designs for both commercial and residential clients throughout southcentral Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula.